Final Thoughts
Final Thoughts
Written by John Packard
December 12, 2016
We are hearing from a number of service centers that there have been a couple of mills out there who are not interested in pushing prices again this year. The thought process is split within the steel community to see if the next increase (which the vast majority of the industry believes is coming) will be in early January 2017. The thought is the mills may want to wait and get the support of higher scrap prices and (hopefully) stronger production and order books.
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